I have a history of somewhat routinely tweaking or fully redesigning my theme, but it’s usually just a matter of moving some elements around, changing a colour here and there and calling it a day. With the release of WordPress 3.0, I took a slightly different approach this time. This release brings with it some major changes and I decided to begin digging into WordPress a little more deeply than I usually do this time.
In particular, I decided it was high time I really began grokking widgets to a degree I hadn’t before and I was determined that the new WordPress menu system would be my friend. This meant a different approach to the usual. I’ve built a number of sites with WordPress where I presently work, and for clients in the past. As we move more deeply into WordPress for blogs and other projects at BCIT, I felt that leveraging the platform’s features for my personal use would be useful.
I’ve always written custom menu code in the past. For the most part, I did this because I could ensure that I maintained states for styling on families of pages and I could include exactly what I wanted to in various areas of page real estate. However, I’ve always been bothered by this to some degree because, once I’ve finished designing a theme, I’m still opening up my code editor and FTP-ing something or other to the server as I make a tweak here and a tweak there, as opposed to simply updating my site through the admin panel.
August 22nd, 2010 :: design, technology :: 10 comments
I’m just trying to come to terms with what can only be described as one of the single largest fusterclucks I have ever experienced in my 45 years on this planet. Even with a day to digest what happened, I really can’t get my head around the magnitude of the absurdity, nor just how significant [...]
July 30th, 2010 :: reflection :: 7 comments
This will be a pretty short recap. The weather was pretty unpredictable. Forecasts this week ranged from sunny and 18 celsius to rainy and 10 celsius. At 5am, when I got out of bed, it was overcast and a mild 10 celsius. The latest forecast suggested it would stay cloudy for the morning and rain [...]
May 2nd, 2010 :: training & racing :: 4 comments
This is my online home, where I frequently journal about web, technology, training and racing, and toy with WordPress, which is what this site is built on. More » »
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